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Welcome to Civil Rights

Here you can get some information on all things about civil rights .

In New Zealand Civil and political rights are a class of rights that
extend to the protection of peoples' physical integrity; procedural fairness
in law; protection from discrimination based on gender, religion, race,
sexual orientation, etc; individual freedom of belief, speech, association,
and the press; and political participation.

Treat others as you wish to be treated is a fair way to look at it. Whether
you want to do a Yoga
Class or go to Church on the weekend . That is your
Civil Right.

Melbourne Solidarity with Aotearoa arrestees

Footage from the rally held at Federation Square
at noon on Saturday 27 October 2007 as far of a global day of action
in support of activists arrested in Aotearoa/NZ since Monday October
15th

President John F. Kennedy; Address to the Nation on Civil Rights; the
White House – June 11, 1963.

Transcript:

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is as old as
the scriptures and is as clear as the American
constitution. The heart of the question is whether all Americans
are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are
going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated. If
an American because his skin is dark cannot eat lunch in a restaurant
open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public
school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent
him, if in short he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us
want then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin
changed, and stand in his place. Who among us would then be content
with the counsels of patience and delay? One hundred years of delay
have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves yet their heirs,
their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet free from
the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic
oppression. And this nation for all its hopes and all its boasts
will not be fully free until all its citizens
are free.

That one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

I have a dream that
one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its
governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and
nullification. One day right there in Alabama little black boys
and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and
white girls as sisters and brothers. Full
Transcript